Kate Chadd is a design leader who has made a significant impact in the field of user-centered design across different industries, including startups, leading brands, and large companies. Her vast experience spans from concept to completion, redesigns, and mid-project reboots. With a focus on helping people grow and teams succeed, Kate has a 12-year track record of recognizing, leading, and driving opportunities where UX practices and processes can unlock value in people, processes, and products across an organization.

Kate studied Bachelor of Science, Industrial Art and Design with an emphasis on visualization at San Francisco State University. Over the years, she has held several positions in top organizations where she has sharpened her skills and expertise, including Director Of User Experience at Signify Health, Senior Design Director at Indaba Design, Director Of Product Design at Donovan/Green, and Senior Design Consultant at Walmart eCommerce. She is also skilled at managing cross-functional design teams, mentoring junior designers, balancing business needs, stakeholder expectations, and technical requirements in a fast-paced environment while maintaining quality and best practices in all her design and innovation projects.

Highly collaborative, Kate can work through details with product development teams, coach junior designers, or present plans from concept sketches through product launches to project teams, business stakeholders, IT leaders, and C-level executives. She is an expert in building teams and internal UX practices, employing a user-centric design approach and utilizing data and testing to drive project metrics. Her experience covers design leadership and management, B2B and B2C enterprise application design, user experience design, user research and analysis, and mobile application design.